US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Aug. 25 for "Draining erroneous packets" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,809, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Draining erroneous packets" was invented by Avigdor Segal (Netanya, Israel), Barak Singer (Saratoga, Calif.), Jonathan Cohen (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Anna Rom-Saksonov (Rosh Haayin, Israel) and Tomer Malach (Ramat Gan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit (IC) unit receives an ingress stream of packets for processing, and detects an error in a packet received in the ingress stream. An interrupt controller generates an internal drain indicator to trigger handling of the error internally by the IC unit. In in response to the internal drai...